Guest Lecturing on Geographies of Religion: Interviewing My Colleagues' Students, Focusing on Tangents

This 'Teaching Tips' article focuses on my recent experience of guest-lecturing in colleagues' classes. Influenced by Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, my initial guest-teaching revolved around posing an argument about geographies of religion as 'grounded theologies&...

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Published in:Bulletin for the study of religion
Main Author: Tse, Justin K. H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2016]
In: Bulletin for the study of religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Freire, Paulo 1921-1997, Pedagogia do oprimido / Awareness pedagogy / Religious geography / Religious pedagogy
RelBib Classification:AF Geography of religion
AH Religious education
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Summary:This 'Teaching Tips' article focuses on my recent experience of guest-lecturing in colleagues' classes. Influenced by Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, my initial guest-teaching revolved around posing an argument about geographies of religion as 'grounded theologies' as a problem for students to challenge. However, my recent guest lectures have involved interviewing my colleagues' students to discover why they find grounded theologies interesting. I show that this new mode of guest-lecturing - also influenced by Freire - has opened up new conversations at a primal ontological level through a wider breadth of topics discussed, including occupy movements, Game of Thrones, Black Nordic Metal, and modern imperialist ideologies. Following Sam Rocha's folk phenomenology, I suggest that the primal depths that this interview-lecture style of guest lecturing is perhaps worth a try, even though I plan to use the argumentative lecture in the future as well.
ISSN:2041-1871
Contains:Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/bsor.v45i2.30879